Friday, 24 April 2009

Huh, I made the effort and followed the full PES campaign launch event tonight in Toulouse, 2 1/2 hours of political campaign speeches. That is even a lot for some geek like me.

Allow me just to copy-paste my tweets from this event into this blog post, and the only thing I would like to do besides is to again regret sincerely that the European Socialists did not have the guts to present their own candidate for the Presidency of the next European Commission to counter Barroso, who, even according to them, is weak and without vision!

Update (26 April 2009): The major speeches from the event are now available as videos.

French PS leader: attack on French Liberals of Bayrou, and to #ELDR concerning competition in the field of public services #eu09 #ep09 #PES

French PS leader: we need an emotional connection to Europe, the Europe of peace, of social cohesion, of intelligence #PES #ep09 #eu09

We need a new majority to change the President of the European Commission, says French PS leader. Me: Who will it be? #PES French PS leader speaks mostly to national audience. Quite boring from a European perspective. #ep09 #eu09 #eu #PES

on 07 June we can change the direction of Europe with a #PES majority, says French Socialists' leader #ep09 #eu09 #eu